GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A 22-year-old mother has been charged with driving drunk with a 3-year-old in her vehicle before crashing and injuring a 64-year-old woman.

Ebony Michelle Howard was driving south along Grandville Avenue SW and A Street not far from her home around 10:30 p.m. March 16 when her car struck a northbound vehicle, according to Grand Rapids Police.

The driver of the northbound vehicle suffered broken bones and remains in the hospital 10 days after the crash, according to police.

Howard was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.13 percent, police report. The legal threshold for drunken driving in Michigan is 0.08 percent.

Howard faces up to 5 years in prison if convicted on charges of operating while intoxicated causing serious injury. She was also charged with child endangerment for having a person younger than 16 in the car while driving drunk, a one-year misdemeanor.

In Grand Rapids District Court on Wednesday, March 26, Howard waived her probable cause hearing to preserve a plea offer from the Kent County Prosecutor’s Office that would allow her to plead guilty to the drunken driving causing injury charge in exchange for the child endangerment charge being dropped.

Howard’s case now moves to Kent County Circuit Court before Judge Mark Trusock. Howard is free on a $3,000 bond.